A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now recognize the caps as legal tender.
225
Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
10
91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
197
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
2
Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
8
During the Cold War, the US had planned to detonate a nuclear weapon on the moon.
25
In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
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